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"With our hearts and minds focused on the stewardship of the only planet we have, the best way to engage in a hopeful future is to plant oaks! Let this book be your inspiration and guide." -The American Gardener
With Bringing Nature Home, Doug Tallamy changed the conversation about gardening in America. His second book, the New York Times bestseller Nature's Best Hope, urged homeowners to take conservation into their own hands. Now, he turns...
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Greystone Books
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English
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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES
A powerful return to the forest, where trees have heartbeats and roots are like brains that extend underground. Where the color green calms us, and the forest sharpens our senses.
In The Heartbeat of Trees, renowned forester Peter Wohlleben draws on new scientific discoveries to show how humans
...5) Wishtree
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Red is the neighborhood "wishtree"―people write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red's branches. Along with her crow friend Bongo and other animals who seek refuge in Red's hollows, this "wishtree" watches over the neighborhood. You might say Red has seen it all. Until a new family moves in. Not everyone is welcoming, and Red's experiences as a wishtree are more important...
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Mysteries of nature trilogy volume 1
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David Suzuki Institute, Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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10) Green
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Illustrations and simple, rhyming text explore the many shades of the color green.
11) Little tree
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Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
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Inspired by a poem by E.E. Cummings, this is the story of a little tree that finds its own special place in the world as a much-loved Christmas tree.
12) Fall is not easy
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Zino Press Children's Books
Pub. Date
c1998
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English
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A tree tells why, out of all four seasons, autumn is the hardest.
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Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"This book is written for anyone interested in natural history and the environment. We are all used to appreciating living trees and forests and each of the three trees profiled in this book is part of a rich biological community during its lifetime. Fewer people appreciate dead wood, even though a tree provides as many services to other living creatures after the tree's death. This exploration of the afterlife of trees describes the importance of...
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2021.
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English
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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
Winner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction * Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
"A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times." -David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue
A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from...
Winner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction * Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
"A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times." -David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue
A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from...
17) We are branches
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Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Branches are all around us: in butterfly wings, on gecko toes, in flowers, frost, and mud. Whether as electricity moving across the sky or rivers flowing to the sea, branches are nature’s most efficient way to spread and to connect. They are even found inside our own bodies, helping us reach and grow with each breath and heartbeat. Branches—strong, hopeful, beautiful—are the shape of life.
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"Under the canopy of the rainforest, hundreds of animals make their homes--from the slender parrot snake to the colorful poison dart frog. But up in the trees hides a whole other world, where toucans and pale-billed woodpeckers chatter and call, capuchin monkeys swing from the vines, and sleek-furred jaguars rule the night. In this exuberant book, discover the wonder and activity that lie hidden among the roots, above the winding rivers...and under...
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